Then he had on his right hand ice, islands large and small, and intervening channels; on the left, ice, and a cape visible, Cape Walker.

At an island, named after the First Lord of the Admiralty Melville Island, the great frozen wilderness barred farther progress.

There he wintered.

On the coast of Melville Island they had passed the latitude of one hundred and ten degrees, and the men had become entitled to a royal bounty of five thousand pounds.

This group of islands Parry called North Georgian, but they are usually called by his own name, Parry Islands.